Baseball Travels to Yale for Games on Saturday and Monday

Apr 23, 2010

The Particulars
Harvard takes to the road this weekend for a four-game series at
Yale in some pivotal Rolfe Division games for the Crimson. Harvard
enters the weekend at 6-6 in the Ivy League, just 2.0 games behind
Brown and Dartmouth. Yale meanwhile, enters the weekend at 3-9 and
is on the outside looking in for the playoff picture.

Update: Saturday's doubleheader will take
place at 1 p.m.. Sunday's games have been moved to Monday at 2:30
p.m. because of severe forecasted storms.

About Harvard
The Crimson split its Sunday-Monday series with Brown last
weekend. Harvard recovered from a poor-fielding day on Sunday with
impressive play on Monday as the Crimson swept the Bears.

Andrew
Ferreira was the Ivy Rookie of the Week last time out following
an impressive week as the freshman lefty posted a .125 opposing
batting average against. He no-hit Boston College for his first
five innings on Wednesday in the first round of the Beanpot and
then no-hit Brown for his first four innings on Monday. Against
Boston College, Ferreira struck out seven batters in the first five
innings before some tough luck went against him in the sixth
inning. Against Brown on Monday, he retired the first 12 batters he
faced while picking up his first career win with two strikeouts in
5.0 innings of one-hit relief.

Ferreira was joined on the Honor Roll by Jeff Reynolds, who
hit safely in five of his six games last week and was 9-for-10 in
his first three games. All told he hit .600 (6-10) with runners in
scoring position and .545 (6-11) with runners on base as he
recorded nine RBI and four extra base hits in the week. His best
game came against Northeastern as he was 5-for-5 with seven RBI and
two stolen bases.

Sam Franklin and Tyler Albright
have also caught fire of late. Albright has hit safely in eight
straight games and is 8-for-10 with 6 RBI in his last two games.
Franklin is 7-for-12 with 7 RBI and 5 runs scored in his last three
games.

About Yale Yale is coming off a weekend sweep at the hands of
Dartmouth last weekend and the Elis also dropped a 19-18 slugfest
to Quinnipiac on Wednesday night.

Senior Trygg Larsson-Danforth leads Yale with
a .375 average. The 2009 All-Ivy first teamer is also the Elis'
pacesetter in slugging percentage, on-base percentage, doubles,
home runs, total bases, walks and RBI.

Yale has a success rate of nearly 69 percent
on the basepaths, swiping 42 bags on 61 attempts. The Bulldogs have
committed 45 errors in 36 contests en route to a .964 fielding
percentage.

Pete Ludwig (3-4, 3.45 ERA) is the team's top
starter and has 45 strikeouts in 44.1 innings although he has also
yielded a team-high five home runs. Other starters this weekend are
likely to be Brook Hart, a quarterback on the football team with a
2-3 record and a 4.91 ERA, Christopher O'Hare (1-0, 5.09) and Vin
Lally (5-2, 5.53). Out of the bullpen, the team relies heavily on
Rob Gruber (3-1, 4.50) who has already been used 17 times.

The all-time series dates back to a July 25,
1869 tilt in Worcester, Mass., which the Crimson won by a 25-17
tally. The first game in New Haven between the perennial rivals was
a 24-22 Harvard win on July 4, 1870.